To the news of a peer’s death in an automobile accident, one interviewed teenager said, “It’s fate. When your time comes, it comes.” Another tearily added, “God called him home.” Apparently, as far as you know, your time could be up at any moment. Nothing you can do about it. This is sloppy and dangerous …
Tag Archive: education
Aug
20
In God We Trust? – Part 1
In Everson v. Board of Education (1947), the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision written by Justice Black, held: The ‘establishment of religion’ clause of the First Amendment means at least this: Neither the state nor the Federal Government can set up a church. Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, …
May
30
The Star Trek Prophecy
The most obvious appeal of Star Trek lies in its anticipation of human technological advancement and in its ability to entertain the dream that along with phasers and transporter beams, we may eventually acquire the secrets of our universe. And yet the real seductiveness of Star Trek is tied up not with technology, but with …
May
24
Book Review – Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, & the Battle for America’s Soul
“It is humanity’s unique blessing and peculiar curse to be the only species on Earth, as far as we know, that worries so obsessively and at such great expense about where we came from and why we’re here.” (Epilogue, pg. 339) Pulitizer Prize winning journalist Edward Humes is a consummate storyteller. In Monkey Girl, he …